Episode 161 - 'Reasonable, Shady, and Downright Crazy' with Ashley (@BabyBenCohen)
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
Is This Real Life? With Mandy Slutsker
4.3 • 20 Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2021
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
This week Mandy is joined by Ashley of the Instagram account @BabyBenCohen! She shares her experience working as a nurse practitioner at a hospital during the pandemic, bonding with patients over Real Housewives, and which Bravolebs thought Andy was running her IG handle. After discussing the latest breaking Bravo news, Ashley and Mandy play a game of “reasonable or shady?” and discuss the reasonable, shady, and downright crazy behavior of the Real Housewives of Potomac, Salt Lake City, and Beverly Hills.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Is This Real Life, a Bravo podcast that relates our favorite shows to our own lives in the world around us. |
| 0:18.5 | I'm your host, Mandy Slutszer. Let's get to it. |
| 0:32.5 | Hi, Real Lifers. Hope you're all doing well and had a good week. I am just trying to keep up with the amount of |
| 0:40.4 | content we are getting. I mean, Vanderpump Rules just started. I feel like there is something on |
| 0:48.4 | almost every night. And I am so, so grateful for all of the incredible content we're getting from Bravo, but feel like |
| 0:56.7 | I'm unable to just capture everything in the way that I normally do. |
| 1:01.0 | So instead of going more in depth, I'm just trying to have some conversations throughout |
| 1:08.2 | the podcast about the various shows that are on and will still |
| 1:12.9 | primarily focus on housewives, although in a couple weeks I am going to do a deep dive into |
| 1:18.7 | Vanderpump Rules. I did enjoy the premiere this week. It was different. I'm still trying to |
| 1:25.0 | wrap my head around what the show is supposed to be after kind of |
| 1:29.9 | all of the changes and variations that they have gone through. But I like it. And what I'm most |
| 1:35.4 | interested in, actually, is the tension between Tom Sandoval and Katie Maloney-Schwart that has |
| 1:42.9 | always been there. But because there has been so many different members of the cast and so many complex |
| 1:50.1 | relationship dynamics and friendship dynamics, they never really got into that one. |
| 1:57.0 | And I'm interested to see how it plays out. |
| 2:00.2 | Of course, I have been following all of the back and forth between Mia and Escala. |
| 2:06.2 | I mean, just so much nonsense coming from Mia. And I like her. I really do. But she is just throwing shade Iskala's way and Candace's way and they retaliate and then |
| 2:19.9 | she seems to be upset with them for retaliating. And this week, Mia blamed a lot of what had been |
| 2:28.1 | going on on a social media manager and said that she's looking for a new one. But the post that she put on |
| 2:37.7 | Instagram and then also copied to Twitter was written in white on a very light gray background. |
| 2:45.5 | So it was almost impossible to read. And it's just funny that it came this week when we saw Jen Shaw blame her |
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